Pink Floyd’s 1989 concert was full of reluctant compromise from both the production team and the city of Venice. Although the canal city didn’t normally host events of this nature, the city ...

By Steve Knopper Lana Topham‘s obsessive quest for the perfect Pink Floyd at Pompeii film cut began in 1994, when guitarist David Gilmour requested unedited footage from the concert shot in 1971.

Pink Floyd had a little help from McCartney and John Lennon, who partially financed the event where Floyd played its first major concert. The earliest Pink Floyd gigs were either groundbreaking ...